Preface

FibreCAT N40i with Windows Storage Server 2003 is an optimized file server based on Microsoft Windows

technology that is designed for high reliability, availability, and ease of management.

The base for this system is Microsoft Windows Server 2003 ‘ Standard Edition operating system with
additionally installed Server Appliance Kit (SAK) 3.0. SAK allows complete administration of almost the
whole system using Internet Explorer.

The intention of this readme is to help owners of the FibreCAT N40i to be successful in installation and
administration. It describes the main steps to do the job, but does not detail any system features, neither
for the hardware nor the underlying Microsoft Windows operating system. To get more information
refer to the documentation mentioned at the end of this readme
The system is factory preinstalled and ready to use. If the system is just powered on without doing
anything else, it will start and configure itself with default parameters. That means, the system
gets a default name, sets the password to fibrecat, configures both onboard Ethernet ports to assign
IP addresses from a DHCP pool, and joins itself to workgroup WORKGROUP. If you don t like
these settings, continue reading paragraph Setting Configuration Parameters.
Do not power on without prepared configuration media if you do not want default settings.

System Configuration

Because the FibreCAT N40i is factory preinstalled, it can be put into operation just after unpacking. If
the system is just powered on, it will get a default configuration as described in paragraph Preface.
Supposed, a system configuration with customized settings is preferred, there must be a file
sysprep.inf supplied during system configuration phase. This is done by plugging in an USB device
(Floppy or Memory Stick) to an USB port, which contains the configuration data.
How this will be accomplished is described in paragraph Setting Configuration Parameters.
The time required for setting up a preinstalled FibreCAT N40i will be around 10 minutes for configuration
and 2 reboots, the initial boot after power on and the final boot.

New Installation

On delivery the FibreCAT N40i is factory preinstalled.
If for some circumstance it may be necessary to install the system again from scratch, you have to
install and configure the operating system by yourself using the provided DVD.
To perform a complete (re)installation do the following steps:

1. Put the DVD into the corresponding drive and power on the system.
If customized system configuration is required, prepare prior powering on the system an USB
device which holds a file sysprep.inf as described in paragraph: Setting Configuration Parameters.

2. Wait for round about 15 minutes when the system copies data from the DVD to the disks and
calculates checksums of all copied data.

3. The system automatically reboots and performs the final configuration, which will last additional
10 minutes. During this step either

a.) the default configuration will be done, or
b.) if the file sysprep.inf is present on an USB device the customized configuration will be performed.

After finishing these three steps, administration can be done over LAN using the Internet Explorer.
All above mentioned steps are explained here in detail.
For further reading see paragraph FibreCAT Deployment / Re-Installation and Appendix A

Setting Configuration Parameters (optional)

There is the possibility to configure the FibreCAT N40i with customized configuration data. Therefore
an USB device (Floppy or Memory Stick) must be supplied which contains a file sysprep.inf with the
configuration data. Here will be described how to create the sysprep.inf file.
Insert the DVD into a Microsoft Windows system (PC) and wait for starting the DVD automatically. This
will first open a command window showing some additional instructions and afterwards it will start the
configuration tool CfgEdit.exe. CfgEdit will guide through all necessary steps to create a functional
sysprep.inf file.
Important: Carefully choose the configuration parameters you enter. Wrong input might leave the
system in non-operable state during the setup later!

The following screenshots of CfgEdit.exe will show you which parameters you®ll have to enter.

Welcome screen of CfgEdit.exe:

Following the “Next® button you are prompted to specify whether you want to create a new configuration

file (answer file) or if you want to change an existing one:

Browse at this point to the drive letter of the DVD on the system used. There is a default file

sysprep.inf in the directory ”Deploy–which should be used as base for further editing.

Next the default user name and organization have to be entered:

Next step is to define computer name and the administrator password:

Remember computer name and password!

You®ll need these values to be able to log in to your FibreCAT N40i later.

Take care of your password! It will appear as clear text in the configuration file. So you should later

change the password when the system runs.

Next network configuration has to be done:

Here you can select only two network adapters. The network interfaces mentioned here are the two

Gigabit ports which reside on the system board. If there are additional adapters in the system, you

must configure them later when the FibreCAT N40i runs. It can be done using the Web-GUI or remote

console.

In the next steps you will be guided through the network configuration for both ports. If no actions are

taken, i.e. the default settings are used, the system tries to configure DHCP network addresses. It®s

possible to use static and/or dynamic addresses on different ports.

After port 1 is finished port 2 will follow.

You should be familiar with network administration from a normal Windows Server 2003 system. For

example you can enter a fixed value for the IP address:

Fill in whatever settings are necessary in your environment. Configure WINS/DHCP as needed.

Acknowledge by clicking OK and go on. The next step is to select the domain/workgroup your

FibreCAT N40i will belong to.

At this point you can configure the system to be a member of a workgroup. If you plan to use the FibreCAT

N40i in a domain, do the necessary changes on the running system within the User Interface.

See using the Network à Identification tabs, as explained later in this document.

After you have specified this, you®ve to choose the correct time zone:

After that you have to save the configuration file:

Select in this form the location and filename of the attached USB device, choose the correct drive

letter for the USB device and keep in mind that the filename must be sysprep.inf. The system configuration

with customized user data will only succeed if the configuration file is named sysprep.inf and is present on

the root directory of the corresponding device.

With the “Next” button you´ll reach the last screen CfgEdit.exe:

Click Finish to leave the program.

To open an existing configuration file to make changes is possible at any time. The configuration file

can also be edited with text editors to do special adjustments not supported within CfgEdit. Additional

settings will not be affected by CfgEdit.

Apply Configuration – First Boot New System

After preparing the USB device with the file sysprep.inf, plug the device into the FibreCAT N40i.

Now power on the system. It is important that this is the first time the FibreCAT N40i is powered up – otherwise

If the configuration file is incorrect the system might stall in this phase and you might have to

connect keyboard/mouse and monitor if you want to see what happens (see also Troubleshooting )

– Third boot – final boot to running FibreCAT N40i

– The FibreCAT N40i is now accessible via network

– If plugged in, the USB device may now be removed

The installation creates a RAID 1 array for GlobalFlash service partition and system partition on two of

the disks. The service partition has a capacity of 150 Mbytes and the system partition of ~3 Gbytes.

During the final configuration the system partition will be extended to 10.5 Gbytes.

If there are four additional disks in the FibreCAT N40i chassis a RAID 5 array is created. This logical

disk is NTFS-formatted and has the volume name NASDATA (see also chapter Disk Layout )

After finishing the configuration phase, when the system starts the final boot, the remaining disk space

on the system disk will be partitioned and formatted with a NTFS file system. Its name will be

SYSBACKUP. Also in this phase the above mentioned NASDATA volume is formatted.

Final Configuration

The LCD panel will show system name and IP addresses of both onboard Ethernet controllers for 10

minutes after the system installation is done and after every reboot. The IP announcement toggles

every few seconds from IP1: to IP2:, which looks like:

NAS: FIBRECAT-AB123

IP1: 172.25.186.100

After 10 minutes this text will be displayed:

FibreCAT N40i

Now you have to move to a Microsoft Windows workstation running MS Internet Explorer release 5.0

or higher. Other browser than IE can´t be used for this purpose!

Start Internet Explorer and type as URL FibreCAT N40i´s system name or IP-Adress as selected during preparation of the configuration file.

First you´ll be prompted for you login name and password:

Type in the password you selected during ” Setting Configuration Parameters “. Notice, this passwords is until now insecure! Either it is the fixed default password ” fibrecat ” or the one supplied over the USB media within the file sysprep.inf, which can be read as plain text.

So we suggest to change the password to an other value via the user interface described in this chapter.

The banner line contains the FibreCAT N40i system name.

Click on the link Administer this server to go on..

Next this window appears where the password has to be entered again.

After acknowledging with ” OK ” you will get the main page of the user interface.

After starting the user interface the first time an exclamation mark will appear in the banner line with the

text ” Status: Warning “

.To fix this, change to the Status page and:

set or acknowledge the correct time and date

set or disable email alerts and system administrators email address

set or disable email alerts and system administrators email address

acknowledge installation of a new security certificate

Afterwards the exclamation mark will disappear and Status: Normal will be displayed.

To get some orientation have a look at the menus Welcome and Take a Tour as well menu Help.

If you prefer another language than English, select the convenient language within menu Maintenance and

Language. There are addicinal French, German and Spanish avalible.

Now you should adapt the FibreCAT N40i according to your needs. This will include configuring additional